We need programmers who like to play on the bleading edge. By trying out new features, they are able to report on problems that they find - and, in doing so, improve the experience for the many...

Data Munging with Perl was published in February 2001. That was over 23 years ago. It’s even 10 years...

Over the last week or so, as a background task, I've been moving domains from an old server to a newer and rather cheaper server. As part of this work, I've been standardising the way I deploy web...

I gave my first public talk sometime between the 22nd and 24th September 2000. It was at the first YAPC::Europe which was held in London between those dates. I can't be any more precise because the...

I've spent more than a reasonable amount of time thinking about Amazon links over the last three or four years. It started with the Perl School web site. Obviously, I knew that the book page needed a...

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed - William Gibson The quotation above was used by Tim O'Reilly a lot around the time that Web 2.0 got going. Over recent months, I've...

I've mentioned before how much I enjoyed Olaf Alders' talk, Whither Perl, at the Perl and Raku Conference in Toronto last month. I think it's well worth spending forty minutes watching it. It...

It's been over twenty years since I spoke at a conference in North America. That was at OSCON in San Diego. I've actually never spoken at a YAPC, TPC or TPRC in North America. I have the standard...

[This post might sound like I'm angry at people making it hard to make progress on some things. That's not the case at all. I realise completely that people have limited time and they get to choose...

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million...

This is a story of one of those nice incidents where something starts off simple, then spirals out of control for a while but, in the end, everyone wins. On Reddit, a few days ago, someone asked 'Is...

Building a simple web site that is updated daily using GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions

ChatGPT exposes an API, but there’s no CPAN module for taking advantage of that. Let’s put that right...

I've been building Docker containers again. And I think you'll find this one a little more useful than the Perlanet one I wrote about a couple of weeks ago. Several years ago I got into Travis CI and...

It's October. And that means that Hacktoberfest has started. If you can get four pull requests accepted on other people's code repositories during October then you can win a t-shirt. In many ways, I...

I'm a dinosaur who still believes that web feeds are a pretty neat idea. I wrote and maintain perlanet (a Perl program for aggregating web feeds into a new feed - and building a web site based on...

Making it easier to learn how to use CPAN modules

Perl has some great modern tools for working with dates and times